Roxana - The Fortunate Mistress
| Title: | Roxana - The Fortunate Mistress |
| Author: | Daniel Defoe
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| Year First Published: | 2008 |
| Page Count: | 0 |
| Synopsis: | "Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress" is a 1724 novel by Daniel Defoe. Its full title is Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress, or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim. The novel concerns the story of an unnamed "fallen woman", the second time Defoe wrote about this theme after Moll Flanders. In the book, a woman who takes on various pseudonyms, including "Roxana," describes her fall from wealth thanks to abandonment by a "fool" of a husband and movement into prostitution upon his abandonment. The woman moves up and down through the social spectrum various times, by contracting an ersatz marriage to a jeweler, secretly courting a Prince and being offered marriage by a Dutch merchant, being finally able to afford her own freedom by accumulating wealth from these men. |
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